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The chains of government are heavy and endless.

By Don Huffines July 1, 2022

Liberty bells are ringing on the Fourth of July, but only with a dull thud. We love to brag with pride that America is the land of the free, but the reality is we are undoubtedly far from free. American citizens are beset from every angle by increasing, government-driven burdens. These burdens come from each level of government in the form of taxes and regulations. As a result, we are less free each Independence Day.

The most precious asset of personal liberty is an individual’s labor, but the government owns the value of our labor. At every level, governments tell workers how much earnings we can keep; notably, it is solely at the government’s discretion. Tax rates are set arbitrarily. In a time of high inflation, food, and energy costs, the government-takes-first tax scheme hurts the ordinary wage-earner the hardest. There are never tax breaks for consumers on out-of-control necessary critical goods.

What about our real estate, our homes, or businesses? Every state has property tax, meaning the government has the first lien on your home, business, and commercial property. In effect, we rent it from our government. Texans pay the highest property taxes in the country while having sales tax higher than Florida. While a unique point, it is imperative to understand that the government will always be your landlord and the rents go up every year. You will never own your home, ranch, farm, or other real estate in the United States. Loans on our real estate aside, the government has a lien that you must pay every year, and you cannot pay off this ‘lien.’

About nine in ten American children attend public schools. Attendance is mandatory, yet these schools fail most of our children. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a government website, reported that the nation’s schools are consistently underperforming, even before the Coronavirus lockdowns. According to the Department of Education’s Nation’s Report Card, most students graduate below proficiency standards. The education block in government picks the curriculum; trains, educates, and pays government teachers, teachers whose activism constantly expands their pay and power in the statehouse, and poisons students with more government propaganda.

What about our vehicles? We do not even own our cars or trucks – we have annual registration fees, taxes, licenses, and inspections. A citizen must pay the fees, or citizens cannot use their vehicle or face the risk of arrest and jail. Often, the people who evade registration costs are the working poor, who dodge authorities to commute to work.

There are many more incidents of arbitrary government laws infringing on our God-given liberty. In most states, more than half of occupations require licensing issued by the government. Other careers are “regulated” by pseudo-governmental industry organizations. Many jobs are locked behind arbitrary college-degree requirements issued by universities that the state empowers as a primary credentialing source.

In recreation, so too do levels of government dictate what a person can do with their time. Citizens must get permission and pay an annual tax through licensing just to go fishing or hunting.

The list of the chains of government is almost endless. It is virtually impossible to find anything we do regularly that isn’t designed, required, or influenced by the government’s laws. Most of these laws extract money from everyday people to finance further government activities, which continue government practices that degrade the quality of life by taking our freedoms. Essentially making citizens serfs or slaves to the government.

This Independence Day, let us remember to celebrate independence from our own government. The real threat to our liberty isn’t just a threat; it’s real. It isn’t external either. The danger to freedom is local, state, and federal governments. The chains of government are heavy and endless. The government owns our labor, property, schools, cars, and so many other aspects of our life. How free are we? The first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge there is one. The land of the free must be the home of the brave, or we are all doomed. It is incumbent upon all patriots to take an active role in politics and government to restore our freedom so the liberty bells can be heard once again.


"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Europeans are often amazed at all the Permits required for everything in the States.


We Americans love our many levels of Govt.

Somehow it makes us feel "independent".


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I enjoyed the time I spent in Boston, I think they call it, "The Cradle of Liberty", I have more freedom in Iowa.


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Americans don't want to be free. They want to be "safe."


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There's a serious movement in Texas now to end property taxes on your home at age 65.

Which is only right, in my opinion.

By far the highest property tax in Texas is school taxes. People over 65 don't quite have school aged kids as a rule, and they should be able to enjoy owning their home without having to sell it pay property taxes.


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Originally Posted by ShaunRyan
Americans don't want to be free. They want to be "safe."

Very true.

Seems that a majority of Americans want to be taken care of by Big Brother and Big Nanny -- not only from the cradle to the grave -- but from the erection to the Resurrection.

And they're more than happy to give up their individual Rights, individual freedom, and individual sovergnty for that "care" crazy

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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Europeans are often amazed at all the Permits required for everything in the States.

You should try doing something in the UK. Permits on top of permits and they're not cheap, they charge you and arm and a leg for everything.

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Thought this wanna gonna be about SLO Joe getting the lesbian b-ball playa freed from Russia for the 4th......


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Great post, gone.

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The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.

A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.

"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".

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In total taxation, Illinois is either first or second. In government corruption, a definite first. Schitthole country

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The US is ranked 15th on the Freedom Index.


https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country


Another two years under the democrats and we will be down near Croatia and Albania.


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How much of the money goes towards government pensions and benefits????????


PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!


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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Originally Posted by ol_mike
How much of the money goes towards government pensions and benefits????????

Lois Lerner shakes her fist at you, you meanie!!!


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Originally Posted by ol_mike
How much of the money goes towards government pensions and benefits????????

To much...but not nearly as.much as is going into friends pockets and buying votes.


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Originally Posted by gonehuntin
Originally Posted by ol_mike
How much of the money goes towards government pensions and benefits????????

Lois Lerner shakes her fist at you, you meanie!!!


Learning the Cost of Lois Lerner's Pension
by Pete Sepp September 30.
Even before she retired last week, scandalized IRS official Lois Lerner’s compensation was already attracting attention. While on administrative leave, federal rules allowed her to keep collecting a salary, one that reportedly totaled $177,000. So it was no surprise when speculation arose over how much Lerner could collect in federal pension benefits.


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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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What I'm tired of is the q ueers, p hags and other degenerates being shoved down our throats in celebration of diversity month. The dating site that now caters to h omos is especially disgusting. Our country is really in decline going from a t ranny first lady with the White House illuminated in rainbow colors to a pedophile who sniffs adolescent girls hair while staring down their cleavage.

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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Europeans are often amazed at all the Permits required for everything in the States.


We Americans love our many levels of Govt.

Somehow it makes us feel "independent".

I`ll bet you own more guns than any 100 people you could randomly pick on the streets of England and I mean more than all 100 put together.
I think there is still more than a little freedom left in this country

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Originally Posted by funnybone
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Europeans are often amazed at all the Permits required for everything in the States.


We Americans love our many levels of Govt.

Somehow it makes us feel "independent".

I`ll bet you own more guns than any 100 people you could randomly pick on the streets of England and I mean more than all 100 put together.
I think there is still more than a little freedom left in this country
Get a permit buy a gun and kill yourself with it.

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Good post. This country and its patriots are becoming the slave to government largesse every day.

There are two Americas now, at some point we'll need to codify where those physical boundaries exist. Think it's coming soon.

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Originally Posted by Raferman
Originally Posted by funnybone
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Europeans are often amazed at all the Permits required for everything in the States.


We Americans love our many levels of Govt.

Somehow it makes us feel "independent".

I`ll bet you own more guns than any 100 people you could randomly pick on the streets of England and I mean more than all 100 put together.
I think there is still more than a little freedom left in this country
Get a permit buy a gun and kill yourself with it.

Go fu c k your mother you simpleton retard.

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